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DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

This is a partial list of the complete ranking showing only key-value stores.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

☐ include secondary database models				71 systems in ranking, April 2026
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Apr 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2025	DBMS	Database Model	Apr 2026	Mar 2026	Apr 2025
1.	1.	1.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	146.53	+1.35	-7.58
2.	2.	2.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	62.67	-2.75	-13.82
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	22.43	-0.31	-0.12
4.	4.	4.	Memcached	Key-value	13.97	+0.29	-1.00
5.	5.	5.	etcd	Key-value	7.11	+0.00	+0.06
6.	6.	6.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	4.50	-0.26	-1.05
7.	9.	11.	RocksDB	Key-value	3.76	+0.34	+0.62
8.	8.	13.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	3.65	+0.21	+0.83
9.	7.	7.	Aerospike	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS	3.47	+0.02	-1.76
10.	12.	9.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	3.22	+0.19	-0.22
11.	11.	10.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.13	-0.01	-0.11
12.	13.	12.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.87	+0.02	-0.23
13.	10.	8.	Ehcache	Key-value	2.83	-0.32	-1.11
14.	14.	16.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.66	-0.04	+0.25
15.	15.	15.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.57	+0.02	-0.10
16.	16.	14.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.53	0.00	-0.18
17.	17.	27.	Valkey	Key-value	2.41	+0.08	+1.28
18.	18.	17.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.13	+0.09	-0.07
19.	19.	20.	LMDB	Key-value	1.96	+0.01	+0.21
20.	21.	19.	LevelDB	Key-value	1.91	+0.04	+0.01
21.	20.	18.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.87	-0.02	-0.12
22.	22.	22.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.66	-0.02	+0.00
23.	23.	21.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.61	-0.01	-0.10
24.	24.	23.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.57	+0.01	-0.05
25.	25.	25.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.39	+0.07	+0.07
26.	26.	26.	Geode	Key-value	1.33	+0.01	+0.02
27.	27.	24.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.29	-0.02	-0.17
28.	28.	28.	GT.M	Key-value	0.94	+0.01	+0.05
29.	30.	30.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.93	+0.05	+0.09
30.	29.	29.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.90	-0.01	+0.03
31.	31.	31.	ZODB	Key-value	0.73	+0.01	-0.07
32.	32.	32.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.70	+0.02	+0.03
33.	34.	34.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.58	+0.02	+0.06
34.	33.	33.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.58	0.00	0.00
35.	35.	35.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.56	+0.02	+0.05
36.	36.	37.	MapDB	Key-value	0.44	-0.03	-0.03
37.	38.	38.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.43	+0.01	+0.00
38.	39.	40.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.42	+0.04	+0.14
39.	37.	36.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.42	+0.00	-0.06
40.	40.	39.	Hibari	Key-value	0.35	-0.01	0.00
41.	46.	52.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.28	+0.08	+0.22
42.	43.	41.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.25	+0.00	-0.02
43.	41.	43.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.24	-0.05	+0.01
44.	45.	44.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.21	0.00	+0.01
45.	48.	47.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.20	+0.02	+0.03
46.	47.	50.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.20	+0.01	+0.13
47.	44.	49.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.20	-0.04	+0.11
48.	42.	42.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.19	-0.06	-0.06
49.	49.	46.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	+0.00	+0.00
50.	50.	45.	Badger	Key-value	0.11	+0.00	-0.08
51.	51.	48.	Speedb	Key-value	0.09	0.00	-0.03
52.	52.	51.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.07	+0.00	+0.01
53.	53.	54.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	+0.00	+0.00
54.	56.	56.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.05	+0.02	+0.03
55.	55.	55.	STSdb	Key-value	0.04	+0.00	+0.01
56.	57.	57.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.01	+0.00	0.00
57.	54.	60.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.00	-0.05	+0.00
58.	58.	61.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
59.	59.	62.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	58.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.01
59.	59.	59.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	0.00
59.	59.	62.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	53.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.06
59.	59.	62.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
59.	59.	62.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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